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The flip side of this is to find a good company that is in the metro area, but not in the main city. For example, my commute from Sherwood to Wilsonville is 20
by dsp1234 11y ago
The flip side of this is to find a good company that is in the metro area, but not in the main city.
For example, my commute from Sherwood to Wilsonville is 20-25 minutes. Since I'm not trying to drive through Portland proper, I'm able to use a back road that has 2-3 cards on it during 'rush hour'.
So I'm able to get the big house and the short commute at the same time by have a starting and ending destination that is not where everyone else is.
- jasonkester 11y agoIndeed. One of those early moves was into one of the run down apartments across the tracks from the Home Depot in Tigard, so that I could be walking distance to the little office park there. Super cheap, and plenty of stuff around to do. Just not overly walkable or as pleasant as living in the Pearl District. Then again, just like a fella can make up for a lot of unpleasantness given an extra 1-5 hours a day in free time, the same can be said for paying half the rent of a downtown loft. They still let you drive in to town on the weekends if you get bored of throwing darts at a plastic board and drinking Budweiser non-ironically. And working a software job while living in the "first month free" apartments, you can certainly afford to do so.